Business process development and run time tool

An information handling system (IHS), comprising:

• a processor;
• information sources coupled to the processor;
• a memory coupled to the processor, the memory being configured with a process development and run time tool to:
• form at design time a dependency table that includes a list of information sources with dependent processes, the dependency table further including a list of business values, each business value corresponding to a respective dependent process, the dependency table further including a list of business risks, each business risk corresponding to a respective dependent process, the dependency table further including a respective composite information source business risk for each information source in the list of information sources;
• identify at design time those information sources of the list of information sources that exhibit a composite information source business risk that exceeds a predetermined business risk threshold, thus providing identified critical information sources;
• provide at design time fault tolerance to those processes dependent on identified critical information sources;
• detect at run time information source failures of particular information sources, thus designating particular failed information sources;
• identify at run time those processes dependent on the particular failed information sources as exhibiting information source defects;
• disable at run time those processes dependent on the particular failed information sources;
• communicate at run time a list of terminated processes to stakeholders of the terminated processes;
• prioritize at run time failures of particular information sources in accordance with business risk, the prioritizing at run time designating information source failures as critical information source failures or non-critical information source failures in accordance with the predetermined business risk threshold;
• and
• bypass at run time those information source defects that correspond to critical information source failures.

A process development and run time tool computer program product, comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium;
• first program instructions that form at design time a dependency table that includes a list of information sources with dependent processes, the dependency table further including a list of business values, each business value corresponding to a respective dependent process, the dependency table further including a list of business risks, each business risk corresponding to a respective dependent process, the dependency table further including a respective composite information source business risk for each information source in the list of information sources;
• second program instructions that identify at design time those information sources of the list of information sources that exhibit a composite information source business risk that exceeds a predetermined business risk threshold, thus providing identified critical information sources;
• third program instructions that provide at design time fault tolerance to those processes dependent on identified critical information sources;
• fourth program instructions that detect at run time information source failures of particular information sources, thus designating particular failed information sources;
• fifth program instructions that identify at run time those processes dependent on the particular failed information sources as exhibiting information source defects;
• sixth program instructions that disable at run time those processes dependent on the particular failed information sources;
• seventh program instructions that communicate at run time a list of terminated processes to stakeholders of the terminated processes;
• eighth program instructions that prioritize at run time failures of particular information sources in accordance with business risk, the prioritizing at run time designating information source failures as critical information source failures or non-critical information source failures in accordance with the predetermined business risk threshold;
• and
• ninth program instructions that bypass at run time those information source defects that correspond to critical information source failures,
• wherein the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth program instructions are stored on the computer readable storage medium.